YOU meet a gorgeous guy.

SERGIY LEBID stole the show with a devastating last lap surge to claim his fifth successive title - and his sixth in all - at the SPAR European cross-country championships in Tilburg, overcoming the challenge of Spain’s Alberto Garcia, the European 5,000m champion who only returned from a two-year ban for a positive drugs test last March.

MARK CARROLL may not have won a medal but he won a lot of admiration with his courageous performance in the men’s 5,000m final in which Alberto Garcia claimed a seventh gold medal for Spain in a contest that had everything.

MARK CARROLL will have the opportunity to turn his season around when he lines up for the final of the men’s 5000 metres tomorrow.

MARK CARROLL had a new spring in his step when he went training at the UCC complex at the Mardyke yesterday morning having received confirmation from the AAI that he had been selected for the European championships.